Word: dan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people who milled about last week in the little town of Angels Camp, Calaveras County, Calif, he would have been astounded. Yet they were there because he once wrote a story called "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,'' which told how Jim Smiley's frog Dan'l Webster was defeated at Angels Camp when the opposition loaded it with buckshot. In 1926 Angels Campers, grateful for their town's only fame, instituted an annual International Championship Standing Broad Jump for Frogs to honor Mark Twain and to have fun. Last week they dedicated...
...hard did the Pinkham family work to make the Compound a success that two sons predeceased their mother (Dan at 33, Will at 28). Lydia died at 64 but the Vegetable Compound went marching...
...Hero Dan Gardiner, Princetonian, is "rich as a louse" but woe comes to him nevertheless. His sweetheart, Lois Miller, whose charm is not clearly indicated, marries another man. Hero Gardiner lies about a drinking scrape, is expelled from the university. After he loafs around home for a while, spending his time with a group of undistinguishable cronies who drink a greal deal and generally do not amount to much. Dan's kindly Uncle Mark is sympathetic when the young man confesses a longing for another summer at Fawn Lake, the resort where, during a previous summer, his love affair with...
...Bill Brewer, John Stewer, Peter Gurney, Peter Davy, Dan Whiddon Harry Hawk, old Uncle Tom Cobley
Independent producers in the field denounce proration, as do lease-owners. A large group of them have retained onetime (1927-31) Governor Dan Moody as attorney, will seek an injunction against proration. A champion of these discontented forces is Carl L. Estes, editor of the Morning Telegraph and Courier-Times in Tyler, town of 17,113 (pre-boom figure) in the heart of the new field. He has written sharp editorials denouncing proration, caused mass-meetings to be held in almost all the new boomtowns. Nervous, crippled, Editor Estes is 33, has been in the newspaper business 17 years...